"I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I……" — John Sayles

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• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that… — Frederic Bastiat
• Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts… — Saul Bellow
• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken… — Winston Churchill
• A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer… — Wilkie Collins
• With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,… — Sun Tzu
• The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,… — Sun Tzu
• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden
• He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was… — Saint Augustine
• Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. — Alexis de Tocqueville
• I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman

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